“With A Passion For Painting” The Still-Life as Metaphor, with Lillia Frantin

Please be sure to purchase the required materials for your class prior to the first day of class. All materials are available at our local art supply store, The Starving Artist, located at 814 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville, NC 28793. If you have any questions about the materials for your class, please contact us.

RECOMMENDED MATERIALS

Basic Palette Colors:

Cadmium Red Light

Alizarin Crimson or Permanent or Opera Rose

Cad. Yellow Medium

Cad. Lemon

Ultramarine Blue

Viridian

Sap or Chromium Oxide Green

Ivory or Lamp Black

Recommend LARGE STUDIO TUBE of Titanium White for mixing & tinting.

Brushes: I strongly recommend hog-bristle or the like, which can carry a goodly amount of paint and create an expressive “mark” on the surface(Sable is soft and therefore not as conducive to a heavier paint application). Range of sizes by style:

Brights (my favorite, flat-edged with short, stiff bristles) #4,6,8

Flats (medium length bristles for broader areas) # 6,8

Rounds (longer bristles, slender tip for drawing/line) #4

Filberts (also longer bristles, flat, oval-shaped) #4,6,8

The mid-sizes offer most use, the more the merrier! Like old friends, I love my old, worn down brushes for drawing and mark making qualities!

Canvas sizes: We will be using a square format canvas for this workshop. I recommend at least an 18x18 or larger to allow for a good scale and simplified composition....I’ll start my demonstration painting on our first class meeting drawing from one of the studio still lifes on a 30x30 canvas.

Paint Media: Oils.... I only use oil paints, both traditional oils as well as faster drying Alkyd-based oils, because of their wonderful characteristics: responsive, flexible and sensuous to the 'touch'. Both use odorless mineral spirits for clean-up and thinning while another faster drying medium, water-based oils, cleans and thins with water. For this workshop with our limited studio time, you might consider trying faster drying alkyd oils or water-based oils alone or to combine with traditional oils.

Other:

Large Disposable Paper Palette: At least 12X16-we'll be doing a lot of mixing! (You might consider taping freezer wrap over a good-sized sheet of stiff cardboard)

Paper towels, rags and empty cans for thinning and clean-up will be available but feel free to bring your own

A small jar of medium might come in handy, but not required

Most importantly, don't forget to bring your joy and passion for painting!